Goblet with Cover
Venetian glass goblet with polychrome enamel painting. Round foot, stem with node, bell-shaped body, lid with high tip. Round medaillons on the body with maritim motifs. between the medallions twice a coat of arms with diagonally divided, black and silver shield and as crest a growing billy goat, also black and silver. Beside the coat of arms the name letters GY ZK, among them the year 1511. The name letters stand for the Bohemian knight Georg Kopidlansky of Kopidlno.
Presumabply came to Dresden during the Thirty Years War through family connections with the von Kinsky family; donation to the Dresden City Council; until May 1945, the object was located in the Dresden City Hall (seat of the Dresden City Museum). It was stored there together with the other handicraft exhibits of the museum - packed in boxes - in the cellar. Lost since the end of the war.
Richter, Otto: Führer durch das Stadtmuseum zu Dresden, Dresden 1911, S. 3, Abb. S. 4.
Richter, Otto: Der Kopidlansky-Pokal im Stadtmuseum. In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter 21, Heft 3/4 (1912). S. 221-223.
Schmidt, Robert: Das Glas, (Handbücher der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin; Bd. 14) 2. Aufl., Berlin, Leipzig 1922, S. 96, Abb. S. 97.
Museen der Stadt Dresden
Stadtmuseum Dresden
Wilsdruffer Str. 2
01067 Dresden
Germany